Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, IA, Jun 27, 2008
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ONAWA, Iowa -- June Lucile (Leff) Whitehorn, 97, of Blair, Neb., formerly of Onawa, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, with the Rev. Don Collison officiating. Burial will be in Belvidere Cemetery, Turin, Iowa. Visitation will be 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
June Lucile was born June 1, 1911, in Belvidere Township, near Turin, the daughter of Oscar and Jessie (Perry) Leff. As a child, she attended country school, then transferred to Turin School after the family moved from the Leff family farm to a farm north of Turin. She was a member of the first class to graduate from the new high school in Onawa in 1929. As a high school student, she majored in normal training, which prepared her for teaching in the rural schools of Monona County, Iowa. Her first teaching assignment was at Hiawatha Rural School, where she had begun her schooling, as had her father before her. She continued her college education at Cedar Falls, Iowa, Le Mars, Iowa, Blair, Neb., and graduated from Morningside College in 1958. In nearly 30 years of teaching, her schools were Hiawatha, Arcola, Kennebec, Franklin Township, Whiting, Ute and Logan-Magnolia, retiring in 1976. She was the last teacher in the Franklin school, which is now a part of the museum complex in Onawa.
Upon retirement, she moved to Center Heights in Onawa. She moved to Blair in 2007.
She and Howard W. Whitehorn, son of Leslie and Nellie (Busby) Whitehorn, were united in marriage in 1934 at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived in Monona County for several years, then the family traveled to numerous area in the United States, where Howard worked in construction jobs in Burlington, Iowa, Yakima, Wash. (Hanford Site), and Ridgecrest, Calif., (China Lake Naval Air Station). Howard passed away in 1980.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed extensive travel, sewing and crocheting. As a young person, she was active in the Methodist Church in Turin. She was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Ridgecrest, then transferred her membership to the Church of Christ in Onawa upon returning to this community.
Survivors include four daughters and their spouses, Phyllis and Merlin Myers of Blair, Neb., Carol Parker of Honolulu, Hawaii, Shirley and Hermis Waller of Surprise, Ariz., and Wendy and Robert Changstrom of Pillager, Minn.; a son, Kenneth Whitehorn of Eden Prairie, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Whitehorn; sisters-in-law, Leona Leff of Sioux City and Levone Leff of Marysville, Wash.; nine grandchildren, Karen Harding, Crystal Zima, Tony Myers, Lori Parker, Josh and Grant Whitehorn, Sarah Mocha, Mary Whitehorn and Michael Changstrom; four great-grandchildren, Nicole Hewitt, Jake Harding, Karleigh and Makenzie Zima; a great-great-grandchild, Aiden Hewitt; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband, Howard, she was also preceded in death by a son-in-law, Jere Parker; brothers, Allen Weare, Roy Burdette, Charles and Oscar Jr.; and a sister and her husband, Mae and Chris Gregersen.
Contributor: Karen Schneck (48308389)
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ONAWA, Iowa -- June Lucile (Leff) Whitehorn, 97, of Blair, Neb., formerly of Onawa, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, with the Rev. Don Collison officiating. Burial will be in Belvidere Cemetery, Turin, Iowa. Visitation will be 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
June Lucile was born June 1, 1911, in Belvidere Township, near Turin, the daughter of Oscar and Jessie (Perry) Leff. As a child, she attended country school, then transferred to Turin School after the family moved from the Leff family farm to a farm north of Turin. She was a member of the first class to graduate from the new high school in Onawa in 1929. As a high school student, she majored in normal training, which prepared her for teaching in the rural schools of Monona County, Iowa. Her first teaching assignment was at Hiawatha Rural School, where she had begun her schooling, as had her father before her. She continued her college education at Cedar Falls, Iowa, Le Mars, Iowa, Blair, Neb., and graduated from Morningside College in 1958. In nearly 30 years of teaching, her schools were Hiawatha, Arcola, Kennebec, Franklin Township, Whiting, Ute and Logan-Magnolia, retiring in 1976. She was the last teacher in the Franklin school, which is now a part of the museum complex in Onawa.
Upon retirement, she moved to Center Heights in Onawa. She moved to Blair in 2007.
She and Howard W. Whitehorn, son of Leslie and Nellie (Busby) Whitehorn, were united in marriage in 1934 at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived in Monona County for several years, then the family traveled to numerous area in the United States, where Howard worked in construction jobs in Burlington, Iowa, Yakima, Wash. (Hanford Site), and Ridgecrest, Calif., (China Lake Naval Air Station). Howard passed away in 1980.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed extensive travel, sewing and crocheting. As a young person, she was active in the Methodist Church in Turin. She was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Ridgecrest, then transferred her membership to the Church of Christ in Onawa upon returning to this community.
Survivors include four daughters and their spouses, Phyllis and Merlin Myers of Blair, Neb., Carol Parker of Honolulu, Hawaii, Shirley and Hermis Waller of Surprise, Ariz., and Wendy and Robert Changstrom of Pillager, Minn.; a son, Kenneth Whitehorn of Eden Prairie, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Whitehorn; sisters-in-law, Leona Leff of Sioux City and Levone Leff of Marysville, Wash.; nine grandchildren, Karen Harding, Crystal Zima, Tony Myers, Lori Parker, Josh and Grant Whitehorn, Sarah Mocha, Mary Whitehorn and Michael Changstrom; four great-grandchildren, Nicole Hewitt, Jake Harding, Karleigh and Makenzie Zima; a great-great-grandchild, Aiden Hewitt; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband, Howard, she was also preceded in death by a son-in-law, Jere Parker; brothers, Allen Weare, Roy Burdette, Charles and Oscar Jr.; and a sister and her husband, Mae and Chris Gregersen.
Contributor: Karen Schneck (48308389)
Sioux City Journal, Sioux City, IA, Jun 27, 2008
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ONAWA, Iowa -- June Lucile (Leff) Whitehorn, 97, of Blair, Neb., formerly of Onawa, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, with the Rev. Don Collison officiating. Burial will be in Belvidere Cemetery, Turin, Iowa. Visitation will be 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
June Lucile was born June 1, 1911, in Belvidere Township, near Turin, the daughter of Oscar and Jessie (Perry) Leff. As a child, she attended country school, then transferred to Turin School after the family moved from the Leff family farm to a farm north of Turin. She was a member of the first class to graduate from the new high school in Onawa in 1929. As a high school student, she majored in normal training, which prepared her for teaching in the rural schools of Monona County, Iowa. Her first teaching assignment was at Hiawatha Rural School, where she had begun her schooling, as had her father before her. She continued her college education at Cedar Falls, Iowa, Le Mars, Iowa, Blair, Neb., and graduated from Morningside College in 1958. In nearly 30 years of teaching, her schools were Hiawatha, Arcola, Kennebec, Franklin Township, Whiting, Ute and Logan-Magnolia, retiring in 1976. She was the last teacher in the Franklin school, which is now a part of the museum complex in Onawa.
Upon retirement, she moved to Center Heights in Onawa. She moved to Blair in 2007.
She and Howard W. Whitehorn, son of Leslie and Nellie (Busby) Whitehorn, were united in marriage in 1934 at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived in Monona County for several years, then the family traveled to numerous area in the United States, where Howard worked in construction jobs in Burlington, Iowa, Yakima, Wash. (Hanford Site), and Ridgecrest, Calif., (China Lake Naval Air Station). Howard passed away in 1980.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed extensive travel, sewing and crocheting. As a young person, she was active in the Methodist Church in Turin. She was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Ridgecrest, then transferred her membership to the Church of Christ in Onawa upon returning to this community.
Survivors include four daughters and their spouses, Phyllis and Merlin Myers of Blair, Neb., Carol Parker of Honolulu, Hawaii, Shirley and Hermis Waller of Surprise, Ariz., and Wendy and Robert Changstrom of Pillager, Minn.; a son, Kenneth Whitehorn of Eden Prairie, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Whitehorn; sisters-in-law, Leona Leff of Sioux City and Levone Leff of Marysville, Wash.; nine grandchildren, Karen Harding, Crystal Zima, Tony Myers, Lori Parker, Josh and Grant Whitehorn, Sarah Mocha, Mary Whitehorn and Michael Changstrom; four great-grandchildren, Nicole Hewitt, Jake Harding, Karleigh and Makenzie Zima; a great-great-grandchild, Aiden Hewitt; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband, Howard, she was also preceded in death by a son-in-law, Jere Parker; brothers, Allen Weare, Roy Burdette, Charles and Oscar Jr.; and a sister and her husband, Mae and Chris Gregersen.
Contributor: Karen Schneck (48308389)
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ONAWA, Iowa -- June Lucile (Leff) Whitehorn, 97, of Blair, Neb., formerly of Onawa, died Wednesday, June 25, 2008, at Crowell Memorial Home in Blair.
Services will be 1 p.m. Saturday at Rush Family Care Service in Onawa, with the Rev. Don Collison officiating. Burial will be in Belvidere Cemetery, Turin, Iowa. Visitation will be 11 a.m. until service time Saturday at the funeral home.
June Lucile was born June 1, 1911, in Belvidere Township, near Turin, the daughter of Oscar and Jessie (Perry) Leff. As a child, she attended country school, then transferred to Turin School after the family moved from the Leff family farm to a farm north of Turin. She was a member of the first class to graduate from the new high school in Onawa in 1929. As a high school student, she majored in normal training, which prepared her for teaching in the rural schools of Monona County, Iowa. Her first teaching assignment was at Hiawatha Rural School, where she had begun her schooling, as had her father before her. She continued her college education at Cedar Falls, Iowa, Le Mars, Iowa, Blair, Neb., and graduated from Morningside College in 1958. In nearly 30 years of teaching, her schools were Hiawatha, Arcola, Kennebec, Franklin Township, Whiting, Ute and Logan-Magnolia, retiring in 1976. She was the last teacher in the Franklin school, which is now a part of the museum complex in Onawa.
Upon retirement, she moved to Center Heights in Onawa. She moved to Blair in 2007.
She and Howard W. Whitehorn, son of Leslie and Nellie (Busby) Whitehorn, were united in marriage in 1934 at The Little Brown Church in Nashua, Iowa. They lived in Monona County for several years, then the family traveled to numerous area in the United States, where Howard worked in construction jobs in Burlington, Iowa, Yakima, Wash. (Hanford Site), and Ridgecrest, Calif., (China Lake Naval Air Station). Howard passed away in 1980.
She was an avid reader and enjoyed extensive travel, sewing and crocheting. As a young person, she was active in the Methodist Church in Turin. She was baptized into the First Baptist Church of Ridgecrest, then transferred her membership to the Church of Christ in Onawa upon returning to this community.
Survivors include four daughters and their spouses, Phyllis and Merlin Myers of Blair, Neb., Carol Parker of Honolulu, Hawaii, Shirley and Hermis Waller of Surprise, Ariz., and Wendy and Robert Changstrom of Pillager, Minn.; a son, Kenneth Whitehorn of Eden Prairie, Minn.; a daughter-in-law, Lois Whitehorn; sisters-in-law, Leona Leff of Sioux City and Levone Leff of Marysville, Wash.; nine grandchildren, Karen Harding, Crystal Zima, Tony Myers, Lori Parker, Josh and Grant Whitehorn, Sarah Mocha, Mary Whitehorn and Michael Changstrom; four great-grandchildren, Nicole Hewitt, Jake Harding, Karleigh and Makenzie Zima; a great-great-grandchild, Aiden Hewitt; and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
In addition to her husband, Howard, she was also preceded in death by a son-in-law, Jere Parker; brothers, Allen Weare, Roy Burdette, Charles and Oscar Jr.; and a sister and her husband, Mae and Chris Gregersen.
Contributor: Karen Schneck (48308389)
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